GRADE LEVEL

SKILLS

KEY PRIORITIES

Linking Family Engagement to Instructional Goals

Designed to engage and empower families to support their children’s academic achievement, Scholastic Literacy Events’ ready-to-use kits align with recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education’s Dual Capacity–Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships and feature interactive activities with practices and strategies that maximize reading and writing success.

Ideal Users

School principals and teachers

School and community leaders

Title I coordinators

Family and community engagement liaisons

PTA

PTO

What It Includes

Karen L. Mapp, Ed.D

Senior Lecturer on Education

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Dr. Karen Mapp is the leading family and community engagement expert with more than 20 years of experience. As the author of the USDOE Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships, she guides state and local efforts to help families, educators, and communities work together toward positive developmental outcomes for all students.

What's very exciting about the Literacy Events is that it takes all the components of the DOE framework, from the link to learning right down to the collaborative piece, and this is a tool that provides teachers with a way to actually operationalize the framework through an event and a workshop with families.